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Tom Petty playing guitar
Voices & Opinion
October 3, 2017 | 07:54 am

Remembering Tom Petty: ‘A new traditionalist’

John Covach, director of the University’s Institute for Popular Music, remembers the pop and rock values of Tom Petty. “Petty was not a new waver after all, but rather someone moving forward by looking back.”

topics: Arthur Satz Department of Music, Institute for Popular Music, John Covach, obituaries, School of Arts and Sciences,
Three female Simon Business School graduates
Voices & Opinion
August 26, 2017 | 08:14 am

How business schools can help women attain leadership roles

Women’s Equality Day annually marks the adoption of the 19th Amendment. But nearly one hundred years later, “women are far from equally represented in corporate leadership ranks,” writes Rebekah Lewin, assistant dean of admissions and financial aid at the Simon Business School.

topics: Rebekah Lewin, Simon Business School, women's rights,
people looking at large wall of colorful computer displays
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August 22, 2017 | 04:39 pm

Making Rochester an epicenter of light and sound innovation

Rochester has the unique potential to become an international hub for light and sound innovation, according to Joel Seligman and David Munson, presidents of the University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology, respectively.

topics: augmented reality, Joel Seligman, Light and Sound Interactive, virtual reality,
Sgt Pepper album cover
Voices & Opinion
May 26, 2017 | 12:38 pm

In the summer of 1967: Sgt. Pepper altered pop music industry

In an op-ed for Newsweek, Professor John Covach marks the 50th anniversary of the iconic album, noting that only the Beatles could have released such a musically adventurous and experimental work.

topics: Arthur Satz Department of Music, Institute for Popular Music, John Covach, School of Arts and Sciences,
Chuck Berry playing guitar
Voices & Opinion
March 20, 2017 | 10:31 am

The core of Chuck Berry’s legacy

Rock ‘n roll legend Chuck Berry died on March 18 at the age of 90. In this essasy in Macleans, rock historian John Covach remembers what made Berry iconic in a era of song stylists, covers, and lyric sanitization.

topics: Institute for Popular Music, John Covach, School of Arts and Sciences,
A mother reads to her child.
Voices & Opinion
February 21, 2017 | 04:02 pm

Nurturing a love for reading

In an op-ed for Fox News, Carol Anne St. George, assistant professor of teaching and curriculum at the Warner School of Education, shares the “compelling reasons for reading aloud to children” as well as tips to make the read-aloud experience enjoyable.

topics: Warner School of Education,
Earth's magnetic field connects the North Pole with the South Pole in this NASA-created image.
Voices & Opinion
February 8, 2017 | 03:52 pm

Earth’s magnetic field—reversing or fluctuating?

For the last 160 years, the Earth’s magnetic field has been weakening. In an essay shared on Newsweek, professor John Tarduno explains archaeomagnetism research, in which geophysicists team up with archaeologists to study the effects of these changes.

topics: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, John Tarduno, magnetic field, School of Arts and Sciences,
Voices & Opinion
February 1, 2017 | 04:25 pm

Kocherlakota talks FOMC and wage inflation

On Bloomberg News, Narayana Kocherlakota discusses the Federal Reserve’s most recent decision to leave interest rates unchanged, slack in the labor market, and why he thinks Federal Open Market Committee meetings need reviving.

topics: Department of Economics, Narayana Kocherlakota, School of Arts and Sciences,